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List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the USA with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. When the first ceremony was held on May 16, 1929 to honor films released in 1927–28, there was no separate category for foreign language films. Between 1947 and 1955, except 1953, the Academy presented Special/Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the USA (there were no nominees but simply 1 winning film per year). For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since then.
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